CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
ASLH Pre-conference workshop:
The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) schedules pre-conference workshops at its annual meetings. The 2024 conference is taking place in San Francisco beginning on Friday October 25th, 2024. The ASLH’s pre-conference workshops will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, 24 October 2024.
We are proposing that one of these workshops be entitled ‘Canadian Legal Histories: Current Research and Future Prospects.’ This workshop would allow participants briefly to describe their current research in the field of Canadian legal histories, including those that have encompassed empires, borderlands, comparative research, and Indigenous legal histories. We seek the participation of scholars whose work encompasses diverse geographic areas, chronologies, topics, theoretical frameworks, and methodologies.
The format will be designed to welcome as many voices as possible and provide time for conversation. All topics are welcome within the broad rubric of legal histories relating to Canada. To ensure inclusion of as many researchers as possible, we will structure this as a series of lightning panel sessions, allowing each participant ten minutes to introduce their research. We will conclude the day with a final panel that seeks to make some preliminary forecasts of what the future might hold for Canadian legal history research.
At this stage we are asking for expressions of interest so that we can get a sense of the numbers and make arrangements accordingly. We assume that participants in the workshop will also be attending the ASLH conference. For further information and to express your interest please contact Lyndsay Campbell by February 3, 2024 (lcampbe@ucalgary.ca).
Please feel free to forward this to others you think might be interested.
Workshop Organizers
Constance Backhouse, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, past president of ASLH. Constance.Backhouse@uOttawa.ca
Jim Phillips, Professor of Law, History and Criminology, University of Toronto, Editor-in-Chief, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. j.phillips@utoronto.ca
Lyndsay Campbell, Associate Dean (Research), Professor of Law and History, University of Calgary. lcampbe@ucalgary.ca
Philip Girard, Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, ASLH Honorary Fellow. pgirard@osgoode.yorku.ca